The king treated him, however, with the indulgence which virtue testifies for youth's follies.

The Comte d'Artois took him as the constant companion of his pleasures.

The queen, who liked the Comte d'Artois, feared for him the contagion of the disorders and amours of the Duc d'Orleans.

She hated equally in this young prince the favourite of the people of Paris and the corrupter of the Comte d'Artois.

She made the king purchase the almost royal palace of St.Cloud, the favourite seat of the Duc d'Orleans.